Los que busquen una máquina capaz de ejecutar tareas avanzadas, como edición de fotos y videos, pueden optar por el Dell XPS 8900. Una máquina que por 1.099 euros incluye un procesador Intel Core i7-6700 de hasta 4,0 GHz, 16 gigas de memoria RAM DDR4, un disco duro híbrido de dos teras a 7.200 r.p.m. con una caché SSD de 32 gigas, una tarjeta gráfica independiente Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti, lector de tarjetas, grabadora de DVD, tres compartimentos para unidades de disco duro y dos para unidades ópticas, un total de 10 puertos USB 3.0 y USB 2.0, y cuatro ranuras de expansión para periféricos. Incorpora Windows 10 Home.

Si damos un salto más allá nos encontramos con máquinas como el HP Envy Phoenix 860-017ns por 1.699 euros. Un ordenador diseñado para videojuegos pero con una estética algo más sobria que las de otras máquinas del sector, por lo que podría usarse sin problemas para tareas profesionales en las que sea necesario un alto rendimiento. Su principal virtud es que equipa el procesador Intel Core i7-6700K de cuatro núcleos y hasta 4,2 GHz, 16 gigas de memoria DDR4, una tarjeta gráfica Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 de cuatro gigas de memoria, un disco duro SSD de 256 gigas y otro disco duro magnético de un tera y 7.200 r.p.m., conectividad con redes wifi y Bluetooth, dos ranuras de expansión para periféricos, cuenta con espacio para otras dos unidades de disco y equipa Windows 10.

Casi sobra decir que se opte por el modelo que se opte es importante acompañarlo de buenos periféricos. No tiene demasiado sentido, por ejemplo, comprar un ordenador de altas prestaciones y usar, por ejemplo, un monitor mediocre. De hecho, la elección de la pantalla es clave en equipos de este tipo. Aunque esa es otra historia.

El día ha llegado: toca cambiar nuestra vieja cafetera llena de virus y entrar por la puerta grande en el siglo XXI. Decidir qué portátil se adapta mejor a nuestras necesidades no es tarea fácil. El presupuesto disponible no es el único factor en cuenta, pues muchas veces se pasa por alto una pregunta sencilla y fundamental: ¿qué uso le doy al ordenador?

Si queremos una máquina capaz de mover los juegos más exigentes, un portátil 'gamer' que no escatime en potencia ni pantalla es la mejor opción. Si solo lo necesitamos para trabajar fuera de casa, un pequeño y cómodo MacBook Air puede satisfacer nuestras necesidades. En Teknautas, hemos seleccionado unos cuantos equipos pensados para diferentes usos y presupuestos.

Como insiste siempre nuestro compañero Alfredo Pascual, la clave de un portátil está en su procesador, el 'motor' del dispositivo. Más importante que recomendar marcas o modelos concretos, lo importante a la hora de adquirir un ordenador es saber qué elementos mirar para valorar su relación calidad-precio. A grandes rasgos, los procesadores i3, i5 e i7 definen las gamas bajas, media y altas. Otros puntos clave a tener en cuenta es la presencia de una unidad de estado sólido (SSD) así como la tarjeta gráfica. Empecemos por lo más sencillo:

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Aunque es posible comprar un portátil por menos de 300 euros, en Teknautas recomendamos no escatimar tanto y vamos a comenzar con esa cifra. Por menos de 400 euros es posible encontrar el HP 250 G4 i3, cuyo procesador i3-5005U -de gama baja, por supuesto- destaca por su rendimiento. Dispone de 4 GB de memoria RAM y un disco duro de 500 GB. La pantalla, de 15,6 pulgadas, hace que no sea incómodo sacarlo de casa sin tampoco pecar de pequeño.

Es imposible esperar un gran rendimiento y esperanza de vida de estos portátiles tan básicos, pero son más que suficientes para las tareas más básicas: quien solo necesite usar Word y Excel, navegar por internet, mandar correos electrónicos y poco más, puede hacerlo sin problemas por poco dinero. Un consejo para aquellos que deseen buscar otros modelos por su cuenta: huyan de los procesadores Celeron, inferiores a los i3, a menos que quieran gastar lo mínimo posible.

Saltamos a la gama media, encabezada por los i5. Este tipo de portátiles cae un poco en tierra de nadie: ni baratos, ni caros; no destacan en ningún aspecto. Antes de comprar un equipo de 500 euros, cabe pensar si no podríamos apañarnos con algo más barato... o hacer un pequeño esfuerzo y adquirir a cambio un ordenador de mucha más calidad.

Estos equipos de menos de 700 euros permiten salir del paso a aquellos usuarios intermedios que no necesiten jugar a nada demasiado exigente. Una opción en este rango son los MSI CR62 que, aunque la página del fabricante asegura que cuentan con un i7, pueden encontrarse con un i3 por menos de 600 euros. Por esta cantidad también encontramos este Asus 'todoterreno'.

Si lo que necesitamos es un 'señor portátil', existen gran cantidad de opciones por debajo de los 1.000 euros. Si queremos un ordenador equilibrado que además podamos llevar de viaje, podemos probar con este HP Pavilion que combina un imprescindible SSD con una buena tarjeta gráfica, y todo en unas prácticas 15,6 pulgadas de pantalla. También en esa franja de precios encontramos este Dell.
Algunos usuarios, aunque prefieran comprar un portátil a una torre, no mueven apenas el ordenador. En su lugar, prefieren una máquina con gran potencia y pantalla que les permita jugar, editar fotos y ver series con la mayor comodidad. Varios miembros de Teknautas han adquirido un MSI de estas características en los últimos meses y podemos dar fe de su utilidad.
Por menos de 1.500 euros tenemos ejemplos como este MSI de la serie GE72 que combina un procesador i7 de sexta generación con un SSD de 256 GB. Todo con una pantalla de 17,3 pulgadas y un sistema de audio de sorprendente calidad que lo hacen apto para los usos más exigentes.

Quienes necesiten un portátil pequeño, ligero y fino pero con potencia suficiente para trabajar e incluso editar vídeo y fotos, tienen en los MacBook Air la respuesta. Siempre y cuando no seamos amantes de los videojuegos, estos portátiles son la mejor opción para aquellas personas que no pueden salir de casa sin su ordenador. El problema, como siempre que hablamos de Apple, es el precio, que comienza en los 1.000 euros. A cambio, tendremos un pequeño matón de 11 pulgadas -o 13, si lo preferimos-.
Aquellos que necesiten máxima movilidad pero no quieran gastar tanto -o tengan tirria a Apple- pueden apostar por un 'ultrabook'. Estos portátiles compiten en ligereza con un MacBook Air pero, por desgracia, si no queremos escatimar en potencia el precio puede alcanzar sin problemas los 1.000 euros. Por debajo de ese presupuesto tenemos opciones como los Asus Zenbook, con una pantalla de 13,3 pulgadas.

Imagínense el panorama. La funcionaria llega puntual a su cita con María, 79 años, en una vivienda del distrito de Puente de Vallecas, en Madrid. Su familia ha solicitado una ayuda a la dependencia. Quieren saber si María puede ser usuaria del sistema de teleasistencia, si tiene derecho a algún tipo de atención domiciliaria y si puede obtener alguna prestación económica que le ayude a pagar una residencia. La funcionaria se ha trasladado al domicilio de María para hacer una entrevista y baremar los requisitos que cumple. Abre su ordenador portátil para empezar a trabajar. No lleva ni tres minutos rellenando los primeros campos de su base de datos cuando el terminal, un HP de 2008, se cuelga. Otra vez.

En el desempeño de sus funciones los valoradores de la Dirección General de Atención a la Dependencia y al Mayor utilizan un ordenador portátil para sincronizar semanalmente las agendas con las citas de valoración de dependencia y que también utilizan en el momento de realizar el baremo de dependencia en los domicilios de los usuarios, ya que se sincroniza con la base de datos de la atención a la dependencia de la Comunidad de Madrid.

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The power-saving results were found using a Lenovo X250, Core i7-5600U, 16GB RAM and Dell XPS 13, 16GB RAM running on Windows 10, 64-bit, high-performance power mode. Opera said it used Selenium WebDriver loading 11 popular websites including YouTube.“Running out of battery is one of the most frustrating things that can happen to you while browsing,” Opera vice-president, engineering services, Pawel Miniewicz said in a blog on the organisation’s website.“Whether you are travelling, watching videos, or you have just left your charger behind, the icon showing that your battery is dying is something none of us really want to see when we have important things to do online.“Luckily, since people spend almost all their time in their web browser and relatively speaking little time in other desktop applications, this is something we can do something about.

“Some months ago, we asked our browser engine team to start tuning Opera in order to give people people more hours of browsing when on the move.”To flick the power-saving switch users need only to click on to the battery icon, which appears when the laptop is unplugged from a power source, while the browser will also suggest the power-saving mode when the laptop has 20% battery left.Microsoft Surface Pro 5 release is delayed to 2017 because Intel's Kaby Lake processor will be released by the end of 2016. The processor has better power efficiency compared to its predecessors.
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 was plagued with very bad battery life, which also translated into pathetic sales. Thus, the company is leaving no stone unturned in order to better the battery life of its successor Surface Pro 5, according to GSM Arena. It will also come with a stylus, which can be recharged on a rechargable dock rather than on batteries like was the case with Surface Pro 4.

Intel's Kaby Lake processor are very power efficient, which in turn means less heat as well. Due to their efficient nature, they will preserve battery life as well and help to extend it in comparison with the ill-fated Microsoft Surface Pro 4.

Other features expected in Microsoft Surface Pro 5 include a 4K display, 16GB RAM. Microsoft has always touted and marketed its Surface line devices as laplets, which are a combination of laptop and tablets. Hence, it is no surprise that the company is packing the devices with 16 GB RAM so that the laptop users do not feel left out.

Microsoft Surface Pro 5 is also expected to come with the latest NVidia graphical processing unit for the die-hard gamers. The combination of the latest GPU and 16GB RAM will ensure that the gamers do not feel any kind of lag while playing heavy-duty games on the device.

It is also expected to come packed with a fingerprint scanner and an USB Type-C port, which is one of the expected features in Apple MacBook Pro 2016, according to CNET. The expected price of the device is upwards of $1,199.

On the other hand, there are also reports that Microsoft has delayed the launch of the device because it wants to release the Surface Pro 5 with its latest operating system Windows 10 Redstone 2. Surface Pro 5 will run on the latest operating system so it can only be released after the launch of the OS.

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The Moto Z and Z Force are the first phones to break from Moto's attractive, but well-worn look and feel. Gone are the complexly curved sides, thick middle body and unibody construction. Instead we have a modern and somewhat angular design that's actually very slim, unlike the old Moto design that got chubby toward the middle. Whether this is Lenovo's influence or just the next step for the folks at Motorola who work largely independently from their parent company, we don't know. What we do know is that the Moto Z and Moto Z Force (both Droid Editions in the US and exclusive to Verizon Wireless) are some of the best phones on the market today. They run on the top dog Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 CPU with Adreno 530 graphics and 4 gigs of RAM. They have colorful and very bright QHD 2560 x 1440 AMOLED displays, capable cameras, and a unique modular accessory system that puts LG's Friends for the LG G5 to shame. You can get stylish back covers, an extended battery back, a projector (Lenovo does love putting projectors on mobile devices) and a JBL speaker back. It's easy--magnets hold the various back covers firmly on the back, and the phone automatically recognizes them (and informs you of that fact) without a need to disassemble, reboot or yank out the battery. In fact, for better or worse, both Moto Z models' batteries are sealed inside. This is how a modular phone should be: simple and attractive. The question is, do you want or need a modular phone? While I personally don't feel that I must have one, the Moto modules are useful enough and easy enough to use that I find them tempting.

The two models are nearly identical, with the same CPU/RAM/storage, wireless features, screen size and front camera. The Moto Z has a 13MP rear camera while the Moto Z Force has a 21MP rear camera. The Moto Z has a 2600 mAh battery while the thicker and heavier Moto Z Force has a capacious 3500 mAh battery. To be fair, the Moto Z is one of the thinnest phones on the market at 5.2mm, so the 7mm Moto Z Force is by no means thick just because it's not as slim at the Moto Z. Both models' displays are covered by Gorilla Glass 3, but the Z Force has a shatter-proof covering for those who need serious screen robustness. Moto invited us to drop the phone from 5 feet onto a hard floor to test that shatterproof screen, so they're confident (note that this isn't a rugged phone and it might suffer damage elsewhere when harshly tested). $96 sets the two models apart in the US. The Moto Z is $624 ($26/month) on Verizon Wireless, and the Droid Z Force is $720 ($30/month).

Both phones have slim designs with an aluminum chassis, metal surround and a striped glass back with antenna windows in black at the top and bottom. The phones will likely also be available in white with a gold back and black with gold trim, but our two review units are black with gunmetal trim. The smartphones are intended to be used with Moto Style Shell back covers that cover and protect the many gold pogo pin connectors that interface with optional Moto Mods. With a Style Shell mounted, there's no camera hump, but if you use the phone naked there is a large round camera hump on the back. The shells are slim and light though sturdy, and one is included in the box.

The Moto 5.2mm Z is exquisitely thin (Moto claims it's the thinnest phone currently on the market), and the Moto Z Force is thicker, but still relatively slim for a phone with a 5.5 display. The phones have a fairly large and identical footprint, but they're smaller than the Nexus 6P and 5.5 iPhone 6s Plus. They're easy enough to handle, and the sides are easy to grip, unlike the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge with a curved 5.5 display. That Samsung is however the smallest among the 5.5 competition. Build quality is excellent and the phones feel like quality products, though the front faces are a bit generic and look much like the Moto G4 Plus. The Moto Z models have a front mounted fingerprint scanner that works impeccably. You might be tempted to use that scanner button as the home button, but the home, back and multi-tasking buttons are on-screen. The fingerprint scanner simply locks and unlocks the phone.

The volume buttons and power button are small (perhaps too small) and are clustered tightly together near the top right side of the phone. I'd like more separation or a different size/tactile feel for the power button.

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Algo más lejos han quedado los dos primeros navegadores de esta tabla. Firefox aguantó hasta 2:24 horas en marcha, mientras que el ganador, Edge, estiró su vida útil hasta las 2:28 horas. Cuatro minutos más que Firefox, 15 más que Opera y hasta 19 más que Chrome.
Edge, un recién llegado a la guerra de los navegadores, siempre ha hecho gala en primera instancia de su eficiencia energética. Es el punto débil de Chrome y por donde le atacan el resto de navegadores, incluido Firefox, que ha logrado un notable progreso en esta área a pesar de que su cuota de mercado no hace otra cosa que descender con los años.

En el departamento técnico de El Confidencial, nos han dado algún que otro chivatazo para optimizar todavía más el consumo de los navegadores y alargar así un poco más la vida de las baterías en casos de extrema necesidad.

A grandes rasgos, se pueden tomar dos medidas para que la batería del portátil se estire al máximo si solo estamos consultando información por la red. El primero es hacer limpieza de todo tido de extensiones y 'add-ons' que hayamos podido instalar con anterioridad, ya que añaden carga al procesador, que tiene que ejecutar más operaciones y nutrirse de la batería para llevarlas a cabo. Lo hace a costa de reducir el 'frame rate', mantener la actividad de las pestañas en segundo plano al límite o pausando aquellos 'plug-ins' que no están en uso.

Navegar de incógnito y eliminar todas las extensiones y 'add-ons' que hayamos instalado debería alargar la batería del ordenador

El segundo, pasarse al modo incógnito. Esta opción, que se incorporó a todos los navegadores en los últimos años, utiliza las funciones básicas del mismo a la hora de ejecutar las opciones que le demos, por lo que puede ayudar a que exprimas todavía más la pila. Opera incluso tiene un modo de ahorro de batería que hace que el navegador no abuse en exceso de los componentes del ordenador.

Microsoft se colgó una medalla al probar Edge frente al resto de navegadores y tenemos que darles la razón. No así a Opera, cuyas afirmaciones parecen lejos de ser ciertas.

Un tipo se acerca a un coche aparcado, echa un vistazo a su alrededor y con un rápido movimiento abre la puerta y se cuela dentro. Se sienta en el asiento del conductor, saca un portátil y comienza a teclear. En dos minutos consigue arrancar el coche.

Es lo que muestra el vídeo publicado por el dueño del coche en cuestión, un Jeep Wrangler de 2010. Ocurrió en Houston, donde la policía ha reconocido una serie de robos usando el mismo método. No sabemos qué hace exactamente el ladrón con el ordenador, pero yo supongo que está accediendo al ordenador del coche y enlazándolo con una llave que ya debía llevar consigo y con la que consigue arrancar el coche, ha declarado James Woods, que lleva 23 años en el departamento antirrobo de coches, a 'The Wall Street Journal'.

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Rubén Fidalgo, ingeniero mecánico especializado en automoción, explica que, efectivamente, el suceso parece ser una de las formas que ya se han convertido en habituales para robar coches en que el arranque depende de un sistema electrónico, en teoría más seguros que los únicamente mecánicos, porque no se pueden arrancar simplemente manipulando el motor. Hay dos tipos de sistemas, uno en el que la llave emite una señal de radiofrecuencia, y otro en el que la llave tiene un código único.

El primer sistema, explica Fidalgo, es el que llevan los coches en los que no hace falta introducir la llave en el contacto para que este arranque. Es suficiente con acercarse al coche con la llave en el bolsillo. Tienen un área de alcance, por ejemplo, unos cinco metros, y mientras la llave esté en ese radio, el coche puede arrancar con solo pulsar un botón. Para robar estos coches, los ladrones suelen utilizar un amplificador que aumente el área en que el coche capta la señal de la radio. Imagina que el coche está en el garaje, y la llave en tu mesilla de noche. Si son 20 metros de distancia, los ladrones utilizan un amplificador, de forma que el coche detecte la llave a esa distancia, y así pueden arrancarlo.

En el segundo, la llave lleva un código único que el ordenador del coche debe reconocer para permitir el arranque. Todos estos vehículos tienen un enchufe OBD a través del cuál es posible comunicarse con el coche, explica José Carlos Norte, jefe de la empresa EyeOS e investigador independiente de seguridad informática. Ese puerto se utiliza para acceder a la información del vehículo, como la temperatura del motor o la presión de las ruedas, por ejemplo, pero también sirve para administrar ese código. Imagina que pierdes la llave. Tiene que haber un modo de que el coche no quede inservible en ese caso, explica Norte.

Hacen los coches más seguros, y los ladrones buscan cómo saltarse esa seguridad. Los fabricantes refuerzan sus coches, y el ciclo empieza de nuevo

Claro que eso supone también una puerta de entrada para los ladrones, que pueden utilizar ese punto de acceso para modificar la clave que el ordenador de abordo reconoce, y así hacer arrancar el coche con otra llave.

Se trata de un problema de seguridad bien conocido por los fabricantes y los expertos en ciberseguridad. Rubén Fidalgo lo describe como una carrera hacia delante: los fabricantes hacen los coches más seguros, y entonces los ladrones buscan cómo saltarse esa seguridad. Los fabricantes refuerzan sus coches, y el ciclo empieza de nuevo.

Norte considera que la situación es algo más compleja: Los fabricantes han tratado de proteger sus sistemas a través de la opacidad, de no mencionar cómo funcionan en sus manuales, pero a través de ingeniería inversa, se ha terminado conociendo su funcionamiento. La mayor parte de las veces, sin embargo, no ha sido obra de ladrones ni delincuentes, sino de investigadores como él que han publicado sus resultados con fines didácticos. Los interesados en hacerse con coches ajenos han aprovechado esos trabajos para saltarse la seguridad de los vehículos.
El problema está, denuncia el experto, en la nula experiencia en seguridad digital que tienen la mayoría de los fabricantes de vehículos. Es impensable lo inseguros que son la mayoría de sus coches, lamenta. En su opinión, el sector del automóvil se encuentra ahora como el bancario hace unos años, cuando comenzaba a surgir y a crecer la banca digital: Eran expertos en seguridad física, pero no digital. Tuvieron que ponerse al día, y ahora tienen sistemas muy, muy seguros. A los fabricantes de automóviles les pasa lo mismo: tienen que ponerse las pilas.

Y los conductores, ¿qué pueden hacer? En principio, los usuarios no tienen forma de mejorar este tipo de seguridad en sus coches. Son sistemas complejos y la mayoría no tiene los conocimientos para modificarlos, concluye Norte, que señala que intentarlo puede ser contraproducente, por afectar a la garantía contratada. Fidalgo sugiere volver a los básicos: Si tu coche tiene un cepo en el volante, y el de al lado no lo tiene, un ladrón seguramente se decantará por el de al lado, porque será más rápido llevárselo.

Que Google Chrome es amigo de comerse la batería de tu móvil, tableta o portátil no es ninguna novedad. El navegador de Google siempre ha hecho un uso muy generoso de la energía del dispositivo en el que esté funcionando, aunque ello implique reducir la vida útil de dicho 'gadget'. Y Microsoft, necesitada de un golpe de efecto que le permita dar a conocer al mundo su nuevo navegador, Edge, ha montado una demostración para probar que Chrome es un desastre si lo comparamos con otros navegadores en una Surface.

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This is a very typical problem and usually happens when new Windows operating systems are released. The root cause is either one of the following: either the video drivers aren't fully up to par with the new operating system, or there are bugs in the operating system which are interfering with how the adaptive brightness feature is supposed to work. Thus, some laptop users will have strange display issues as Mary described.There are a few things you can try, and I'll explain how to do that step-by-step below. Please note that these steps work for Windows 7, 8, and 10.1. Disable the Adaptive Brightness via Power Plan SettingsThe first thing you can try is to disable the Adaptive Brightness feature via the Power Options menu inside of Control Panel.

To do so: click Start, then type in power options (no quotes); wait for Power Options to appear in the list, then click it. You should now see a heading that says Preferred plans and a plan underneath that is already selected. Click the link next to the selected plan that says Change plan settings (pic).The Edit Plan Settings window will now appear; click on the link that says Change advanced power settings. A new window will appear with the title Power Options. Scroll down the list until you see an option for Display Brightness and put both on battery and plugged in at 100%; scroll down a bit more and do the same for Dimmed Display Brightness; scroll down more until you see Enable adaptive brightness and put On battery: and Plugged in: to both off. Finally, click Apply, then OK.Proceed to test whether or not the adaptive brightness feature has been disabled (described next).How to Test the Adaptive Brightness

There are two ways to test to see if the adaptive brightness has been disabled:a. Unplug your laptop from the wall; this usually (instantly) causes adaptive brightness to 'kick in'. If nothing changes that is a good sign, but just to make sure - try step (b) below.b. Another way to make adaptive brightness 'kick in' is to reboot the machine and login to the computer. Before you reboot, bookmark this page so you can come back to it. As soon as you log back into Windows, the adaptive brightness should 'kick in'; if it does not, then you are good to go and nothing else needs to be done.If the adaptive brightness is still enabled, proceed to the next step.There is a Microsoft service that runs in the background and is responsible for monitoring the display for changes in light, which then causes the adaptive brightness to 'kick in'. To disable this service, highlight the text below using your mouse:

Right click the above text with your mouse and select Copy from the dialogue menu. Next, click the Start menu, then type in cmd (no quotes); wait for CMD.EXE or Command Prompt to appear in the list, then right click it and select Run as Administrator. A black command prompt window should now appear; right click in the middle of the window and select Paste from the dialogue menu. The commands you copied above should now be output onto the command line.For all intents and purposes, the adaptive brightness should be completely disabled now. You can test to see if the adaptive brightness has been disabled by following the section How to Test Adaptive Brightness in Step #1. If still no luck, proceed with Step #3 below.

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As I mentioned previously, issues often arise with the adaptive brightness when a new version of Windows comes out because there are bugs in the operating system or video driver (or both). Another way to resolve the adaptive brightness problem is to either update your video card driver (if an update is available), or use the stock Microsoft video card driver.Click Start, then right click My Computer or This PC, then select Properties. The System window will appear; on the left side you will see a link to Device Manager - click that. The Device Manager window will now appear; scroll down the list until you see Display Adapters, then expand the list. Your display adapter name and model number should be displayed - make note of both.

Next, open a browser window and search for your adapter name and model number in google, followed by the word driver. For example, if your display is an AMD Radeon 5700 Series, then search for AMD Radeon 5700 Series driver. Alternatively, you can go straight to the manufacturer's website and download the latest driver there; if it's an AMD video card, then go to amd.com to find the driver. If it's an Nvidia card, then go to nvidia.com to find the driver.If still no luck, you can try using the Microsoft basic display adapter. I advise against doing this unless everything else I mentioned above fails, because this display driver is extremely basic and may not allow your monitor to display in the proper resolution.

To roll back to the Microsoft basic display adapter, do the follow:Go back to the device manager (as mentioned above), then double click on your display adapter to edit its options. The Properties window should now appear; look for an option that says Update Driver and click it. Windows will now present you with two options: Search automatically for updated driver software, or Browse my computer for driver software - choose the latter.A new window will appear asking for the path of the driver you wish to install; further down you will see an option to Let me pick from the list of device drivers on my computer - choose that. The next window will appear with the title Select the driver you want to install for this hardware - choose the option that says Microsoft basic display driver, then click Next. Follow the instructions on the proceeding screens; you will probably need to reboot to make the changes take effect.

If the above article is over your head or if you are having display issues with your monitor, I can help using my remote desktop support service. Simply contact me briefly describing your problem and I will get back to you as soon as possible.I need more computer questions. If you have a computer question - or even a computer problem that needs fixing - please email me with your question so that I can write more articles like this one. I can't promise I'll respond to all the messages I receive (depending on the volume), but I'll do my best.About the author: Dennis Faas is the owner and operator of Infopackets.com. With over 30 years of computing experience, Dennis' areas of expertise are a broad range and include PC hardware, Microsoft Windows, Linux, network administration, and virtualization. Dennis holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science (1999) and has authored 6 books on the topics of MS Windows and PC Security. If you like the advice you received on this page, please up-vote / Like this page and share it with friends. For technical support inquiries, Dennis can be reached via Live chat online this site using the Zopim Chat service (currently located at the bottom left of the screen); optionally, you can contact Dennis through the website contact form.

Just about every major computer company has jumped on the tablet-that’s-almost-a-laptop bandwagon at this point. Apple has the iPad Pro, Microsoft the Surface, Samsung the TabPro S, to name a few. Now, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has thrown its hat in the ring: The company’s MateBook tablet went on sale in the US July 11.

Huawei has been criticized in the past for releasing gadgets that seem to confirm a Western assumption about Chinese tech companies—that they manufacture knock-offs of popular products lacking the quality or durability of the things being knocked off. By rolling out its smartphones in the US over the past few years, Huawei has been trying to change that perception, and its MateBook tablet is intended as a resounding show of competence. Huawei would like to identify itself as part of a band of Chinese companies, including drone manufacturer DJI, search giant Baidu, and internet company Tencent, whose products can stand on their own against any comparable offerings from the West.

Quartz tested out—and wrote the entirety of this review on—the MateBook for the last few weeks. Here’s what we thought:

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The screen. The 12-inch HD screen looks great, whether you’re working on spreadsheets or watching a movie on Netflix. It also has a wide viewing angle, meaning it’s actually a decent portable device for watching movies or TV with friends.

It’s (kind of) a laptop. This is silly, but for me, it was kind of a big deal: Most tablet-keyboard case combinations only work on flat surfaces—it’s literally in the name of Microsoft’s tablet line—meaning that you can’t use them on your lap or anywhere not particularly level. The obvious answer to this problem is that you can hold these tablets in your hands, but it’s not always comfortable to do that for long periods of time. The MateBook, with its keyboard case attached, actually works on your lap. It’s not as sturdy as a proper laptop, but it’ll definitely work for a couple hours—or until the battery dies.

It’s portable. One of the biggest selling points of a tablet over a traditional laptop is its weight and size. The MateBook is no exception, weighing in at only about 640 grams (about 1.4 pounds). If you shell out for the additional keyboard case, you can wrap the MateBook in its squishy, leather-esque hide and tote it around easily. (The keyboard case is apparently also water-resistant, according to Huawei, but I didn’t test that claim.) That being said, the case’s ability to transform into a keyboard and stand is a bit awkward—it’ll probably take you a few times to figure out how to prop up the tablet properly.

In terms of fashion, the AyeGear J25 is not an incredibly stylish jacket -- but it's not ugly either. As a 20-something who typically wears skinny jeans and a slim v-neck crew shirt, I found the jacket to be baggier than ones I normally wear. To be fair, however, the jacket serves a specific purpose that inherently prevents it from being more of a formfitting jacket that I might purchase from a fashion retailer like H&M.
It also looks much nicer as a vest, in my opinion, so give it a go without the sleeves and hood when possible or consider the cheaper V26 Vest instead. One knock against the AyeGear J25 is its price: £149.99​​, which is $198.75​ in the U.S. or around $260 in Canada and Australia based on current exchange rates -- and that's after the British pound's recent post-Brexit vote decline. The jacket is certainly convenient, but whether it is worth dropping two bills on is debatable. As is often the case, a better deal can be found on Amazon, where the jacket sells for between $149.99 and $190. Prices vary depending on the size selected.

AyeGear's J25 Jacket is a convenient, multipurpose jacket that fills a niche, particularly for the outdoorsman or frequent flyers, but its drawbacks of being somewhat heavy and expensive should be duly considered. For most people, it may be wiser to save your money and stick with a traditional jacket and backpack combo. The J25 Jacket can be purchased on AyeGear's website (~$198) or Amazon ($149.99-$190) in small, medium, large, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, or 5XL. Free delivery is offered within the U.K., while worldwide shipping is available.
San Jose resident Kevin Nguyen will appear in court next Monday for a second arraignment, after a judge determined there was enough evidence to proceed with a trial in the murder of 20-year-old Milpitas resident Danica Bascos.On July 12, Superior Court Judge Shelyna V. Brown handed down a ruling that Nguyen, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in her bedroom last fall, should be held to answer for her slaying, after a two-day preliminary hearing in June.

At that hearing, the judge asserted that based on the evidence, surveillance video and witness testimony presented there was sufficient probable cause for count one, and the defendant is guilty thereof. Brown also said she found there was sufficient evidence of guilt against Nguyen for the prior count of battery against Bascos as well as a count of battery against Bascos' then boyfriend John Souza.The judge also noted surveillance video from the day last September -- when Nguyen allegedly committed battery against Bascos and Souza -- where the defendant can be seen purchasing the knife, mask and gloves that Milpitas police later found at his residence.

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Brown further referenced evidence presented by Deputy District Attorney Kalila Spain, during the preliminary hearing that took place on June 16 and June 27, that included the emotional testimony of Danica Basco's father about finding his only child's body after she was murdered on Oct. 5, 2016. It also included testimony from Milpitas police Detective Abbie Serrano, who testified Nguyen had Googled how to kill a person and the best way to dispose of a body before he went to the home of his ex-girlfriend with the intention of murdering her.Furthermore, Serrano said Nguyen admitted to using a black-handled knife he'd purchased from a Lucky Supermarket -- a weapon that was recovered from his bedroom -- to stab Bascos in her left breast, her chest and repeatedly in her back inside her Manzano Street home, near Milpitas High School. Nguyen also told the detective that Bascos pled for her life, but he continued to stab her.

After he stabbed her he checked to see if she had a pulse, and she did, he checked again and then she didn't, Serrano told the court on June 27.The detective said Nguyen admitted to killing Bascos because she lied about cheating on him, and didn't want to stay in a relationship with him. Nguyen also said he wore gloves so he wouldn't leave fingerprints.He told me 'the demons' in his head told him to kill her, I asked him if demons had talked to him when he purchased the gloves, mask or knife, he said 'no' ...he said he was mad and he identified himself as a jealous person, Serrano told the court.She also testified that Nguyen had taken Bascos' laptop, cell phone, purse, and car keys, and had told her he intended to use her phone to lure her boyfriend Souza and then shoot him in the head.Serrano confirmed on June 27 that she'd been told Nguyen had not graduated from high school, did not have a GED, could not hold a steady job, did not have a driver's license, did have a developmental disability, does not live independently and could not use household appliances without issues. Nguyen was also being seen at San Andreas Regional Center, which provides case management and services to people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, at the time of the murder, according to the defense.

On Friday, Nguyen's public defender Kelley Kulick said by email, On Monday, July 25 I anticipate a plea of 'not guilty' will be entered and the matter will be set for trial. I do not disagree with the court's finding of probable cause at the preliminary hearing.The court hearing is scheduled to convene at 1:30 p.m. July 25 at San Jose Hall of Justice for the second arraignment, during which time Nguyen is expected to enter a plea and the case will be set for trial.Gigabyte has spent the past few years trying to catch up to Razer and its flagship gaming laptop, the Blade. Razer practically invented the thin-and-light gaming laptop category with the Blade in 2013, and since then it’s slowly evolved into a great laptop for both productivity and gaming.More recently, gaming laptop manufacturers have followed Razer’s lead, trying to position their computers as productivity devices that double as weekend gaming rigs. Gigabyte continues the tradition with the new Aero 14 laptop, which it says can get 10 hours of battery life in a productivity mode that switches over to Intel’s integrated graphics during less intensive activity.

The laptop weighs in at just under 4.2 pounds with a thickness of 19.9mm, which stacks up pretty well with the Razer Blade which weighs in at 4.25 pounds with a 17.8mm closed height.Gigabyte also included a few features for power users, like the HDMI 2.0 port which lets you connect the laptop to an external monitor and use the full 4K resolution. Software add-ons like the Fan Tweak let you adjust the fan speed depending on the type of activity you’re working on. Finally, the macro keys along the side of the keyboard are customizable and can change color with the Macro Hub included software.Lenovo India on Wednesday launched the Ideapad 110 budget laptop, targeted at the first-time personal computer (PC) buyers in India. The Windows 10-based Ideapad 110 laptop will be available at a starting price of Rs. 20,490, with prices going up to Rs. 24,990. Available via retail stores, the laptop comes only in a Ebony Black colour variant.

While the base model comes with an Intel Celeron dual-core processor, options up to Intel Pentium quad-core processors will be available, Lenovo said in a statement.Ideapad 110 is a value laptop with features users need, but without a high price tag. Its dependable processing power, good memory, ample storage, attractive display, and integrated graphics makes it one of the best entry-level laptops for the college goers and young working professionals, said Bhaskar Choudhuri, Director-Marketing, Lenovo India.The company added that under its Back To College initiative, college students can avail EMIs on the purchase of select models of Ideapad 110 - the offer will be applicable in all cities until July 31. Additionally, students are entitled to get up to 3 years of warranty worth Rs. 4,499 along with 1 year of accidental damage protection (ADP) cover with an additional payment of Rs. 599.

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Featuring an improved hinge design that allows for a smooth 180-degree swivel into a flat position, the Lenovo Ideapad 110 comes with a DVD/CD-RW drive.The Lenovo Ideapad 110 sports a 15.6-inch HD (1366x768 pixel) display, 4GB of DDR3 RAM (up to 8GB), up to a 1TB SSD, and a 3-cell 24WHr battery which can offer up to 4 hours of continuous video playback. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, USB 3.0, and HDMI. The laptop weighs less than 2.2kg, and also features an integrated webcam with microphone. I just installed Windows 10 on my laptop, but I'm having a problem with the screen fading so dark I can hardly see it. I've tried adjusting the screen brightness manually on the laptop by pressing the FN (function) key + up arrow key, but the screen brightness won't say - it keeps going dark automatically on its own. The screen goes dim whether or not I have the laptop plugged into the power outlet, or if it's running on battery. It also seems to happen immediately as soon as I login to Windows. I have tried changing the Power Settings (via Control Panel) so that the adaptive brightness is turned off, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Can you help?

The responsive touch screen on the ZenPad Z8 allows for fast animations between home screens and when scrolling through web pages. For the most part, I was satisfied with the tablet's performance, though I did notice a delay of a second or two when switching between open apps. This mixed performance shows in the ZenPad Z8's scores on synthetic benchmark tests.Asus ZenPad Z8The ZenPad Z8 scored 3,355 on the Geekbench 3 general performance benchmark, which beats the scores of the G Pad F 8.0 (933) and average tablet (2,286) and edges out the Predator 8's showing (3,112).The ZenPad Z8 is OK for gaming, notching a 17,846 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited test, which beats the marks of the G Pad F 8.0 (3,735) and average tablet (11,245). The built-to-game Predator 8 (20,785) earned a higher score.The tablet didn't fare as well on our video-editing test, taking 4 minutes and 19 seconds to transcode a 1080p video to 480p using the VidTrim app. The average tablet finishes this test in less time (3:13), but the Predator 8 (6:48) and G Pad F 8.0 (13:00) took even longer than the Asus.

Asus ZenPad Z8The ZenPad Z8's cameras capture vivid color and fine detail, but the preloaded camera app defaults the selfie shooter to the overzealous beautification mode. The tablet's 8-megapixel rear camera captured solid landscape images from our roof, accurately reproducing the calm blue sky, lush green shrubs and details of the wooden boards in faraway water towers.The rear lens isn't as great with video. Its 1080p footage may capture bright orange trucks and yellow taxis, but playback is a little choppy and almost triggered a bout of nausea.Asus put a 4,680-mAh battery inside the ZenPad Z8. On our battery-life test (continuous web surfing at 150 nits of brightness) over the carrier's 4G LTE network, the tablet lasted 8:22. That beats the G Pad F 8.0's time on ATT's 4G network (7:11).When we ran the battery test over Wi-Fi, the Asus chugged along for 9 hours and 17 minutes, which is longer than the times of the Wi-Fi-only Predator 8 (5:36) and the average tablet (6:53).

The ZenPad Z8 is exclusive to Verizon, which sells the tablet for $249.99 off-contract, for $149.99 with a two-year contract and for $0 down and $10.41 per month for qualified customers. The tablet is offered only in the 16GB model we tested.Verizon offers monthly data plans that start at 2GB for $35 a month and top out at 24GB for $110 per month. The service provider also tacks on an additional $10-per-month connection fee plus taxes and other contractual fees.From its brilliant display and strong sound to its speedy processor and lightweight design, the Asus ZenPad Z8 is one great, pint-size tablet. Unfortunately, its user experience suffers from minor dings like slight pauses while switching apps and lackluster video-shooting.The Predator 8 may have a more vivid display and even louder audio, but it costs an additional $30. If you're looking for a small Android tablet, you need to check out the Asus ZenPad Z8.

Samsung’s gone and done it guys. It’s made a perfectly wonderful laptop that retails for under $US1000, is of exceptional quality, and is neither under-powered nor teeming with crappy finishes. This is the college-bound laptop everyone, including Apple, has failed to make for the last couple of years.AU Editor’s Note: The Notebook 7 Spin isn’t sold in Australia, unfortunately. But you can buy it internationally if you like the look of it, and have it shipped from a reseller like Amazon to your doorstep.
We’ve been busting Apple’s balls a lot lately, and it definitely has everything to do with my four-year-old Macbook Pro being on its last legs and my refusal to spend $2000-plus on the paltry-arse upgrade that is the current Macbook Pro. While other laptop companies furiously pack whiz-bang features and new ideas into a slab of aluminium and plastic, Apple’s been moseying along with a product so long in the tooth you might mistake it for an elderly relative who says inappropriate things at family gatherings.

Meanwhile, there is Samsung. Last year it had exactly one laptop in its line up. It was a great laptop, but it was hardly going to help the company take the computer business by storm. This year Samsung has been quietly rolling out a multitude of devices. It started with the brutally efficient Samsung 9, and now it’s back with the chunkier, and much more affordable, Samsung Notebook 7 Spin. The Notebook 7 Spin is the rare quality “do everything” laptop for under $US1000.Yeah, it’s bigger than the laptops we usually prefer here at Gizmodo — large enough that it feels clunky opening and closing and making use of the 360-degree hinge. And at 2kg for the 15-inch, it’s heavy enough to be used in your daily workout routine. Yet it’s also got a 1TB hard drive, space for a zippier M.2 SATA drive, a 15.6-inch 1080p display, USB and USB-C ports, and the 15-inch even has an Nvidia Geforce 940M video card — in case you need to get in some clutch play of the games in Overwatch. More importantly, it’s a lot more satisfying and easy to use that similarly priced laptops like the Dell Latitude 5000 series or HP Envy 15.

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Samsung Finally Gave Us the Laptop Apple Should Have

This may sound shocking to a lot of you cheapskates, but it is actually very hard to find a really good Windows laptop for under a thousand dollars. There’s always a drawback. They’re all huge, and screens are washed out and ugly, or keyboards feel like your typing on marshmallows. The worst offender, though, is the trackpad. Budget laptops always have trackpads designed in the seventh pit of hell and put on this earth to destroy our will to compute.The Notebook 7 Spin has a remarkable trackpad. It’s every bit as intuitive and responsive as a MacBook trackpad — the gold standard. There are no misclicks. No accidental icon draggings. No “oops” right clicks when you meant to click left. The trackpad doesn’t feel buggy and the mouse doesn’t hop around the screen as if possessed. For a Windows machine it’s exceptional.

There are other little nods of quality that are unexpected in a laptop so cheap. The 45Wh battery in the 15-inch variant gave me a solid 6 hours of Nyan Cat streaming at full brightness, and the 13-inch version, which features the same battery and much less battery-consuming screen, should perform even better.
The Notebook 7 Spin also features “fast charging,” so in my testing it went from zero to 20 per cent battery in under twenty minutes, and it would be fully charged in less than two hours. I don’t know if I would characterise it as the fastest-charging laptop available, but it’s certainly in the upper echelons.

The ability to upgrade keeps it up there. The bottom of the laptop is covered in soft-touch plastic and held together by glaringly shiny screws. Remove the screws and you have instant access to the hard drive, M.2 SATA slot, and RAM slots. You can also peer at the latest generation i7 Skylake processor, if you really want to (the 13-inch comes with an i5). That means in addition to being cheap and powerful, it’s also user upgradable. This instantly tags another two years onto the lifespan of the computer.Samsung’s also included an Ethernet port. That’s usually the first port to get sacrificed to the thinness gods, especially in a world in which Wi-Fi is more or less a given just about everywhere you go. Its inclusion here is a deliberate move and not just a vestige of the wired times of yore. Thin laptops and super-light laptops are still a luxury in Samsung’s book, and Samsung is betting that most people would be happy to forgo that luxury to experience a laptop that can tackle any need that might arise.

Samsung Finally Gave Us the Laptop Apple Should Have

In other words, Samsung is trying to build a Swiss Army Laptop for everyone. So there’s an ethernet port for lugging this thing to college where the dank library basement or science lab might have spotty wireless. A USB-C port for the nerd who needs to run their 4K monitor, an HDMI port for streaming anime on a TV, and three regular USB ports for thumb drives, hard drives, and the charging of the countless USB-powered devices we’re all stuck with.There’s an SD card slot for the photographer too. There’s also a touchscreen for the dad who insists he needs one (whether he actually uses it or not), and there’s a 360-degree hinge because some people actually like to use their 15-inch laptop like a tablet, or prop it up so they can lie on their beds watching new episodes of Orange is the New Black.

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Despite being so thin, the Spectre does not compromise on performance like other competitors, which use a less-powerful but fanless Core M chip.Instead, this laptop has an ultrabook-class Intel Core i7 processor with 8GB of system memory and a 512GB solid-state drive.Performance is similar to that of other Core i7 ultrabooks, with the Spectre scoring 2,594 in PCMark 8 Home benchmark.For such a thin and light laptop, battery life (our test involves looping a video at full brightness and volume) was better than I expected at 6hr 20 min.Welcome to our hands-on review of Apple's new 12-inch MacBook for 2016. If you'd prefer to read about the original model, head over to our 2015 12-inch MacBook review. Our review is based on two models we've spent time with: the £1,299 model (1.2GHz m5 processor, 512GB of flash storage) in Rose Gold, and the £1,049 model (1.1GHz m3 processor, 256GB flash storage) in Space Grey.

Apple finds itself in a simultaneously difficult and enviable position in 2016. Having cast its spell over the laptop, the smartphone and the tablet, it has run out of things to revolutionise, things to invent. It seems that Apple is starting to plateau, in both creative and financial terms, but (perhaps unfairly) it must live up to its own hype every time it releases a product. Such as this amazing MacBook, an update to the original 12-inch MacBook unveiled in 2015.Much like the original MacBook Air caused outrage among tech hacks by having only one USB port (Apple later relented and added a second), so the 12-inch MacBook courted controversy by featuring a lone USB-C port which also serves as the power connector: the world promptly decided it wasn't ready for a single-port laptop with a slightly different keyboard. We feel this is the wrong way of looking at this laptop - in a simpler world it is one of the best laptops you can buy. But it isn't that simple, and it will be compared to not only the rest of the world's computers, but also the incredible track record of the company that has made it.

There's no intended niche audience for this product - it is a laptop for everyone, a computer in its purest form that surely will shape the future of the portable computer.
For a laptop that is marketed heavily as the future of computing, the price and specs are both slightly confusing and undeniably high. It's available in two base models, their differences as follows:
Perhaps the price jars because of the way consumer technology has fallen over the past 20 years. You may remember the days of the first family PC costing well over £1,000, but you can now pick up a Windows laptop with higher specs than the MacBook for around half its price. Then again, this high price buys you an incredible feat of laptop engineering that weighs about as much as a tablet, yet (despite Apple's iPad Pro marketing) can do a tad more.
We've been using the standard 1.1GHz model which has an Intel Core m3 processor. The 2015 MacBook's legacy has been, and will remain, that it wasn't very powerful. So far we have no complaints against the 2016 model in day-to-day use - it zips along very nicely for all your everyday computing needs. Geekbench 3 benchmark tests gave the MacBook a multi-core score of 5053. Compare this with the 2015 model's 4618 and the 2015 13in MacBook Air's 5821 and you get an idea of power.

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There won't be any tech snobbery here, incidentally, against the idea of 'everyday computing', as though all tech journalists and specialists actually need and frequently use the power of the MacBook Pro they probably own. The 2016 MacBook, even in its lowest-spec model, is more than adequate for the needs of most - although video editors and gamers should look elsewhere.It's the first Apple MacBook to ship with Intel's latest generation of processor, 'Skylake'. Along with Intel's HD Graphics 515 card, the MacBook has faster performance and storage speeds across the board. It's fair to say that these aren't extremely noticeable in use compared to the 2015 model, but the laptop is agile and responsive. The standard 8GB of RAM helps, as does the flash storage - there are no moving parts in this laptop, and therefore no fan. It barely runs warm, even when put under a bit of pressure with multiple programmes running. A laptop that doesn't scald your lap is always a plus.

Our attractively grey (Space Grey, because space is grey) review model in particular has picked up many compliments on its short travels. (The Rose Gold model is more of an opinion divider.) There's no denying this is a beautiful product.

Instead, we are drawn to notice, and potentially criticise, the one sole port on this computer. (Bar the headphone port. First name on the team sheet.) It's USB-C, a relatively new standard of USB connection. The bundled charger connects to the port, which is also able to transfer data and act as a video output port. You'll need an adapter to do all three at once. But so what? If you know you'll want to attach several USB sticks to your computer every day, then you just won't consider this laptop - much like those who will want to connect an external monitor. The MacBook doesn't support Thunderbolt 3, so the best option for second screening is with an HDMI adaptor to connect to a compatible monitor.

But if you really think you'd want to connect this particular MacBook to an external monitor, why would you plump for a 12-inch screen laptop in the first place? A 15-inch MacBook Pro with a plethora of ports is surely your preferred machine, negating the need for an external display. The point here is that the design of this laptop should not be judged harshly by what it cannot do in relation to its price. This is to misunderstand its excellent combination of form and function.

Unfortunately, for the next couple of years, the one USB-C port thing is probably going to affect sales of this laptop. Given that Apple has gone with it again for the second generation, we think Apple is sticking with this strategy for the long haul - we'll have to wait and see what the next MacBook Pro brings. Some users will feel they might need to suddenly plug in two USB sticks and the SD card for that point-and-shoot camera that's lying about somewhere. The MacBook Air is now considered a design classic used by several generations of person, and indeed allows these plug-ins - but in 2008 it was actually laughed at by many for being overpriced and only having a single port. Sound familiar?

Here's one final point of potential interest: the USB-C ports on our test machines were both a very snug, very firm fit: we had to give them a good old yank to get the cable out. By which we don't mean that you'll ever be unable to get it out - just that, unless it loosens up significantly over time, it will never ever come out inadvertently. And while that sounds good, it does mean that tripping over the wire is going to bring the MacBook crashing down instead of pulling out the cable. We miss MagSafe.(If you miss MagSafe too, there are options. Griffin makes an accessory called BreakSafe - available from Amazon or Griffin itself - a USB-C power cable that incorporates a battery segment and will separate and unattach itself when placed under moderate pressure.)

12-inch MacBook (2016) review: Keyboard

Apple has made the travel of the MacBook's keys particularly shallow in order to squeeze the size of the chassis down, but it's not as far removed from other more traditional typing surfaces as reports might have you believe. It's not so much a compromise as a conscious design choice, just as the decision to buy this laptop is a choice of whether its design tweaks complement your computing needs.The company has made the keys larger than on its other keyboards yet amazingly has fit a full-size design on to a laptop that is a hair over 11 inches wide.

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Typing on the 12-inch MacBook is okay, if a bit of an acquired taste. The reduced travel can make the keys less satisfying and, more importantly, less accurate to use. The sound of the keys, by the way, is very different to what we're used to with Apple laptops: not necessarily bad, just different. We quite like it, really - it's a cleaner tap than the slightly rattly, springy sound effect you get from the MacBook Pro's keys, for instance. But it's a shade louder than you might expect, and may become annoying for hypersensitive officemates.The keys are a good size but squeezed together more closely than on the Pro. And the reduced travel (and consequently keys that sit less proudly above the level) mean it's harder for your fingers to find their way round.

We generally mishit or entirely missed keys more often than on larger or deeper-travelled keyboards, but the most common error concerned the lefthand Shift key. We continuously missed this key and hit the key to its right instead. Indeed, all the keys down the lefthand edge are a little hit and miss.The issue appears related to the low-slung key profile. The keys sit very flat in their bay; whereas the keys on the MacBook Pro are about a millimetre proud of the baseline, these are half that. Having flat, low-travel keys is great for making a highly portable laptop, but it means the keys down the edge are at the same level as the bezel - a bezel so narrow, incidentally (roughly 1.5mm), that it's really just a ridge next to the keys. If your finger strikes one of the far-left keys on the left of the key, there's a good chance it'll strike the bezel ridge at the same time, muffling or entirely blocking the downward action of the key.

The more we used the 12-inch MacBook's keyboard, the more we grew used to its ways: we'll admit it feels different, but after a couple of hours of adjustment and typos, the words flow. Nevertheless, touch typing never reached quite the same level of speed, accuracy and all-round confidence we have with other Apple laptop keyboards. It's a bit of a 'looking down' keyboard, unfortunately.
Not only has Apple impressively included a full-size keyboard in what is the ultimate portable form, but also has managed to fit a well-sized trackpad. Much like the 2015 model, it is a Force Touch trackpad that doesn't physically click, it just gives this impression: Apple created a space-saving mechanism that uses electrical pulses to trick your brain into feeling a click. Press a little harder and you get a deep click, similar to 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.

Then more recently, Microsoft jumped into the fray and said that its new Edge browser offers even more benefits where battery life is concerned. A video posted alongside its claims showed Edge outperforming Opera, Chrome and Firefox in battery longevity tests.Needless to say, Opera wasn't going to take Microsoft's claims sitting down. And new the company is back with a new blog post explaining that Opera does indeed offer better battery life than Microsoft's Edge browser.Opera explained that it didn't even include Edge in its earlier comparisons because the browser is only available on Windows 10. Following Microsoft's new claims though, the company decided to respond.Like most other engineering teams, we love it when someone picks a fight, Opera's Błażej Kaźmierczak wrote in a blog post. If we get beaten in a test like this, we consider it a bug.

He continued, our first step was to see if it actually is the case that 'Edge gives longer battery time than Opera'? As Microsoft hasn’t revealed its full methodology, we were unable to run the same tests. The methodology we applied instead was exactly the same as we provided before: browsing a set of popular websites where the automation simulates interaction with the website, making it close to what we expect normal browsing would be on such page.Just a few days back we unboxed the Notion’s latest 2-in-1 Windows laptop. The laptop was launched a couple of weeks back. For those who are not familiar with Notion Ink, it is an Indian Startup which focuses mainly on budget friendly Windows tablets and 2-in-1 devices. The latest 2-in-1 device comes with a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Under the hood sits the Intel Cherrytrail processor clocked at 1.4 Ghz with 4 GB DDR 3 RAM (800 Mhz). It comes with 64 GB inbuilt storage which can be expanded to 128 GB via microSD card. The device also sports 2-MP front and rear camera. To power up the hardware, Notion Ink comes with an 8100 mAh non-removable battery.

As far as the device is concerned, it looks pretty decent on paper but the real question is, does the device live up to its expectations in real life situations. Head down as we find the answer to the question.
The device comes with a solid aluminium finish which feels good and comfortable while using. The device comes with a 10.1 inch IPS display with 180-degree viewing angles. The screen is a 10 point multi-touch capacitive display. On the top middle of the screen sits the 2 MP front facing camera which performs a decent job under good lightening conditions. On the back is the 2 MP rear camera in the top middle with Notion Ink branding in the center. On the left side of the device are all the ports. Notion Ink Able comes with a microSD card slot, SIM Card slot, 1 USB 3.o port, 1 USB 2.0 port and a micro USB port for charging. It also supports a micro HDMI port and comes with a headphone jack. On the top of the device is the power button with volume rockers. On the right side of the device are the speakers. The device also has a capacitive Windows button at the bottom for accessing Start Menu quickly.

Notion Ink Able had 10.1-inch display which gave a great feedback under both artificial as well as natural lighting conditions. Although it was a bit difficult to use the device under direct sunlight but overall the display is good considering the laptop being a budget one. Coming to the touch, the response is good. It sometimes lags but works accurately most of the times. I tried using touch-based apps like Bamboo paper and the response was good. However, it doesn’t have palm rejection feature which comes handy while using these apps.
Notion Ink Able comes with Windows 10 out of the box and with Anniversary update around the corner, one can expect better features and compatibility in the near future. With the anniversary update, the device will support Windows Ink feature and other new improvements to the Windows 10 OS.

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Moving to the performance of the device, it does perform well under normal conditions but starts to cause problems if you open and switch between multiple apps. The device gave good results with the copying speeds and also worked well with the basic apps like Microsoft Office, Browsers, and video players. Although it caused some delay while using software like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Premier Pro. On the bottom line, the device is best suited for the business consumers or those who want a device to use basic apps. It is definitely not suitable for people who need to run multiple software at the same time or want to play games.
The Notion Ink Able comes with 2 MP front and rear camera for video calling as well as for capturing pictures. Although the camera is not very good, but it performs decent in normal lighting but fails if there is not much light in the room. The front camera is good for video calling. The device comes installed with Windows Camera so you can take benefit of it to capture good photos by tweaking manual settings. Overall the camera does a decent job but it is not good to be used as a primary camera.

Battery life plays a very important role for business users as well as for work oriented people. The battery on the Notion Ink was good enough to last about 5 hrs on normal use which included browsing the internet and watching some videos. Although it can last more if you turn on battery saver while using the laptop. Also decreasing the brightness of the screen can be helpful. Overall the battery life we got was pretty good.
Notion Ink Able comes with multiple connection options. The Laptop has all the ports to the left side of the device which includes the microSD card, SIM Card, USB 3.0, Micro USB, USB 2.0, HDMI and headphone jack. The device does give great copying speeds from the external devices. The device also features a microSD card slot which gives the user a chance to expand storage up to 128 GB. It also comes with an HDMI port so that you can easily connect the laptop to any projector or secondary display.

One of the unique features about Notion Ink Able is it supports 3G SIM for additional data connectivity. This basically means that you can use your normal SIM Card to use the internet in the same was as you do on the mobile. The laptop accepts a Micro-SIM which is not hard to find today and you need an active data connection on the SIM card to use the internet. The overall experience is good and you will hardly notice the fact that you are using a SIM card and not a WiFi. Do note that data speeds will depend on the connection type you have and not on the laptop.
The Notion Ink Able is one of the best devices out there in sub 25,000 if you are a business customer or a person who wants a laptop for casual work/entertainment. The laptop did perform well in different tests but it is definitely not for someone who expects a lot from a laptop. It is not a powerful laptop so don’t expect much of gaming kind of stuff from it. Although it can easily fulfill the needs of a normal user who wants it just for using Office apps or maybe surfing the internet and watching movies or videos. It is suitable for business users as they can have a good laptop with a decent battery backup without shelling out too much cash. Overall we recommend the laptop for casual as well as for business users.

With the Spectre, HP has crafted a stunning, luxury ultrabook that also happens to be the thinnest notebook in the world.It measures just 10.4mm thick. To put this in context: the original Apple iPad from 2010 was 13mm thick. So is the latest 12-inch Apple MacBook.HP achieves this ultra-thin design by moving the hinges to the rear and splitting the internal battery into four separate parts.This lets HP better fit the batteries to minimise the thickness.The Spectre's aluminium and carbon fibre chassis feels surprisingly strong and rigid.The rear of the laptop is finished in copper, which imbues it with a premium feel.But the copper finish is a magnet for fingerprint smudges.

Because its sides are too thin, the Spectre's three USB ports (the slim Type-C version) are located at the rear, along with the audio jack. All three USB Type-C ports can be used for charging.Users will need adapters to connect the Spectre to an external monitor or full-size USB devices.I am very impressed by the amount of key travel on the island-style keyboard.It is much nicer to type on, compared with some ultrabooks, and there is a handy backlight, too. However, the wide but short touchpad is not at all convenient for two-fingered scrolling of documents and Web pages.Like most ultra-thin laptops, the Spectre's sleek body has its drawbacks. Chief among them: the bottom of the laptop gets uncomfortably warm. You definitely want a bag or a cushion as a buffer between the Spectre and your lap.

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Unusually for a premium laptop, the Spectre lacks a touchscreen. But this makes sense: a touchscreen would be thicker and heavier than a normal display.The screen resolution is surprisingly mundane at 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. Last year's HP Spectre x360 came with a 2,560 x 1,440-pixel display. I assume HP chose a lower- resolution screen because it consumes less power.In any case, I was never a fan of ultra-high-resolution screens in 13-inch laptops. Besides, the Spectre's glossy display looks great. It is bright and vivid with wide viewing angles. The only blemish: the bezel is relatively thick compared with some of the latest ultrabooks.You will find the Bang Olufsen branding etched at the corner below the keyboard, but don't get your hopes up. The speakers on the left and right of the Spectre's keyboard sound like the ones on most other ultrabooks - treble-heavy with little punch. And not loud enough for my liking.

MSI and SteelSeries continue to make touch-typists happy with their full-size, island-style keyboard with customizable backlighting. The generously spaced keys have 1.6 millimeters of key travel and require 62 grams of force to depress, making for firm, bouncy feedback. I easily hit my 60 words-per-minute average on the 10FastFingers typing test.
Despite using a SteelSeries keyboard, I was surprised to see the laptop outfitted with MSI's old KLM software for the backlighting. Depending on which of the seven modes I chose, I was restricted to a limited color palette. By contrast, the SteelSeries Engine app lets me paint with a brush of 16.8 million colors. KLM also lacks the ability to create macros, which isn't absolutely necessary since this isn't a gaming laptop, but I'd still like to map a shortcut or two. One thing that hasn't changed is how bright the lighting is in a dimly lit room. My hands were drawn to the glowing keyboard like a moth to a flame.

The 4.4 x 2.5-inch Synaptics touchpad like the rest of the laptop is quite large. My fingers skated across the warm surface, performing two-finger scroll and three-finger press, eliciting quick and accurate responses. The pair of discrete mouse buttons offer strong feedback delivered with an audible click.Ready to design the metropolis of the future in CAD? The WT72's Nvidia Quadro M5500 GPU with 8GB of video memory can get the job done. The powerhouse netted 133,766 on the synthetic 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark, topping the 120,204 desktop-replacement average. The ZBook and the Precision 5510 with their Nvidia Quadro M1000M GPUs weren't too far off at 117,745 and 117,636, respectively. However, the ThinkPad P70 and its Nvidia Quadro M4000M GPU delivered a whopping 144,030.

Although the WT72 wasn't meant to be a gaming rig, we couldn't resist running Metro: Last Light, our most taxing graphics test. At its native resolution (3840 x 2160) on low, the workstation notched 81 frames per second, easily beating the 51 fps average. The ThinkPad P70 was a distant second at 45 fps, while the Precision 5510 and the ZBook were in a dead heat at 21 fps.When I ran the SteamVR Performance Test, the laptop fell into the lower end of the ready spectrum. That means the system can run high-quality VR without encountering the stuttering or lag that could induce simulation sickness.Equipped with a 2.9-GHz Intel Core i7-6920HQ processor with 32GB of RAM, the MSI WT72 6QN blows away mainstream laptops but doesn't offer the most power in its class. The laptop easily streamed an episode of Black Mirror on Netflix with a full system scan and 10 additional Google Chrome tabs in the background.

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On Geekbench 3, which measures overall performance, the system notched 13,928, passing the 13,255 average. The MacBook Pro and its 2.5-GHz Intel Core i7-4870HQ CPU hit 14,423. Outfitted with 2.8-GHz Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5 CPUs, the Precision 5510, the ZBook and the ThinkPad P70 notched 14,316, 14,276 and 13,158, respectively.Despite having a pair of 128GB PCIe SSDs in MSI's SuperRAID 4 and a 1TB, 7,200-rpm hard drive, the WT72 copies files more slowly than its competitors. The laptop duplicated 4.97GB of mixed-media files in 40 seconds for a transfer rate of 125.7 megabytes per second. That's well below the 513.4 MBps desktop-replacement average. The ZBook and ThinkPad P70's 512GB PCie SSDs notched 508.9MBps and 848.2MBps, while the Precision 5510 and the MacBook Pro (powered by 512GB SSDs) hit 565MBps and 636MBps.On the OpenOffice Spreadsheet Macro test, the WT72 matched 20,000 names and addresses in 3 minutes and 33 seconds, beating the 3:41 category average, the Precision 5510 (3:40) and the MacBook Pro (4:14). The ThinkPad P70 and the ZBook tied at a faster 3:23.

I don't imagine anyone grappling with the WT72's elephantine frame once it has been positioned on a desk, which is just as well since the laptop needs to be near an outlet at all times. The workstation lasted for only 3 hours and 16 minutes on our battery test (continuous web-surfing over Wi-Fi), which is an hour below the 4:16 desktop-replacement average. The ZBook took much longer to tap out at 5:08, while the Precision 5510 and the ThinkPad P70 clocked times of 5:34 and 5:53, respectively. Not surprisingly, the MacBook Pro was the last laptop, running at 9:08.Despite the wicked-looking vents along the WT72's undercarriage and rear, the laptop can get a tad hot. The touchpad and the space between the G and H keys measured 83 and 94 degrees Fahrenheit after playing a full-screen Hulu video. Both temperatures were below our 95-degree comfort threshold. The notebook's bottom hit a hot 106 degrees, but since you'd rarely if ever use this behemoth in your lap, your family jewels should be safe.

The 1080p integrated webcam accurately captured the color of my persimmon-colored dress, but everything else was off. The bright yellow stripes in my colleague's blue-and-green plaid shirt were nearly invisible and my hair looked more red than purple. The test shots were very fuzzy, missing details like the small gap in the band of my headphones.To further cement its workstation cred, MSI preinstalled a few apps to help in your multimedia creation goals. For instance, there are trial versions of Magix Photo Manager 15 and Magix Music Maker Silver, which lets you make simple edits to your favorite shots and create your own original music by cobbling together the provided samples.MSI-branded software includes True Color, which lets you change the display's color temperature, and Shortcut Manager, which lets you map programs to hotkeys for a one-button solution. Battery Calibration keeps your battery running at optimal performance, whereas System Control Manager lets you quickly access settings for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Brightness and Volume.

The MSI WT72 6QN has a three-year warranty on parts and labor. See how MSI fared on our best and worst laptop brands ratings and tech support showdown.The WT72 is plenty pricey, so gird your wallets for battle. I reviewed the $4,999 iteration of the laptop, which has a 2.9-GHz Intel Core i7-6920HQ processor; 32GB of RAM; a pair of 128GB PCIe SSDs in a SuperRAID configuration with a 1TB, 7,200-rpm hard drive; an Nvidia Quadro M5500 GPU with 8GB of video memory; and a 4K (3840 x 2160) display. If you don't need the ultra-high-res panel, you can go for the 1080p version, which costs $4,599.

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The base model is a much more affordable $1,899 and features a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU; 16GB of RAM; a 128GB M.2 SSD with a 1TB, 7,200-rpm hard drive; a Nvida Quadro M1000M GPU with 2GB of VRAM; and a 1080p display.While other gaming laptop manufacturers fall into a steady groove with their products, MSI is never afraid to push boundaries. As the first VR-capable workstation, the WT72 is a testament to the company's innovative instincts. For $4,999, game designers, architects and other creative professionals flush with cash can build their own VR worlds, thanks to a system sporting a powerful Intel Core i7 CPU and a Nvidia Quadro 5500M GPU. And when it's done, they can marvel at their work on the stunning 4K display.

However, $4,999 is a lot to ask for any laptop, even one as mighty as the WT72. For $3,477, you can get the Lenovo ThinkPad P70, which offers a brighter, more vivid display, more processing power and better battery life. However, you're losing the ability to run VR applications on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. If you're a creative professional seeking a portable solution that can both run and create VR apps, the MSI WT72 is the laptop for you.The first thing we noticed when unboxing Dell’s Latitude 13 7370 was the screen. The premium business laptop boasts a great looking edge-to-edge display, fitting 13in of it into a portable, tidy body akin to many 12in laptops.

The 7370 takes its design hints from the company’s excellent, consumer focussed XPS 13, but it is definitely more business focussed, both in design and features. Here’s our Dell Latitude 13 7370 review.

As with many Dell products, you can customise the Latitude 7370 to suit your needs at point of purchase. The Latitude 13 7000 series, of which it is a part, starts from £1,079. Our review model had a 256GB hard drive as opposed to the standard 128GB, which means it retails for £1,159 (current offer price).This is a lot of money for one machine, whether you are buying for yourself or for a business, so let’s take a closer look at what that money actually gets you and whether the spend is worth it.

The Latitude 13 7370 differs from other Dells like the Latitude 12 7000 series or the Dell Latitude 14 7000 series simply because it is better looking. All three lines are referred to as ultrabooks, but this really feels like one. As soon as you add the InfinityEdge edge-to-edge screen to the machine it immediately looks sleeker and more of a premium product.
The good looks of the laptop extend to the rest of the machine, apart from, debatably, the keyboard. More on that further into our review.

The 7370 has a pleasant matt finish to its base half, but the outer side of the lid is a cool (in both senses of the word) aluminium that again adds to the feel, but is also surprisingly sturdy. It’s also available with a carbon-fiber cover, for just £10 more at point of sale. There’s barely any give in the lid or the base and the detailing really makes a difference, right down to the silver rim that runs around the edges of the top half. The black matt finish on the bottom of the unit does pick up fingerprints, but unless you have a fully metallic laptop, this is inescapable.

Like Daydream is an upgrade for Cardboard, Google Assistant is an upgrade for Google Now: a more friendly, more personal, chatbot-powered AI that can answer your questions, book dinner reservations, play games and suggest smart replies to send your friends when you don't have the time or the energy to actually compose a proper message. It looks set to spread across all of Google's apps and services.One place where the Google Assistant is definitely going to appear is in the dinky Google Home device - essentially Google's own version of the Amazon Echo (and Google chief Sundar Pichai even gave a shout out to Amazon on stage). It can answer your queries via the web, play music, control various smart home devices (including Nest) and it's coming out sometime in the autumn of 2016.

We'll also see Google Assistant in the company's brand new messaging app: Allo. Did Google need a new messaging app? Perhaps not, but Allo has chatbot-style AI capabilities, some nice stickers, and the ability to quickly change the font size with a slide of your finger. It looks a lot like this is going to be Google's answer to Apple's iMessage, and it links to your mobile number too.Just for fun, Google launched yet another messaging app at I/O, this time for one-to-one video calls (yes, it's Google's FaceTime). It's called Duo and one of its neatest features is the ability to see a video feed of who's calling before you answer. Like Allo, Duo is going to be available in the summer for Android and iOS. Where does this leave Hangouts? To be honest, we're not exactly sure.

Google's smartwatch platform is getting a major update - like Android N and almost everything else announced at I/O, it's coming in the autumn. The update will enable Android Wear apps to run completely independently of a connected smartphone, plus there are three input upgrades - smart replies, handwriting recognition and a small, swipeable keyboard for your wrist. What's more, your smartwatch will be able to identify exercise activities automatically.We already knew a lot about Android N, but there were some new features announced at I/O: background updates, for example, so Android will eventually update automatically in the same way the Chrome browser does. There's also going to be a quicker way of switching between apps, as well as a bigger range of emoji characters - which we know was something a lot of you were waiting for.

Also coming at some point later this year are Android Instant Apps - segments of apps that are temporarily installed on your phone. So, you can jump into a shopping app to buy an item, for example, or an app made by a particular venue or event without having to go through the trouble of installing the whole app and then uninstalling it five months later, never having used it again.Android Auto is slowly but surely getting better and more widely used, and Google announced some small upgrades at I/O this year. The Google-owned Waze app is going to be built into Android Auto, and there's going to be support for Wi-Fi connections as well as wired ones too. What's more, you'll be able to access Android Auto on your phone, without needing a compatible car headset as well.

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Google's Dave Burke admitted that the company is having trouble naming Android N - and so everyone is invited to offer ideas via android.com/n. Before you get too excited, there's not going to be an official poll - Google's decision is still final - but there's a chance that your idea might be the one that's picked. Think dessert names and see where your imagination takes you... you've got until 8 June to make a suggestion.Tablets and laptops with Intel's 7th Generation Core chips code-named Kaby Lake should become available in the coming months.Intel is shipping Kaby Lake chips to PC makers now, CEO Brian Krzanich during Intel's earnings call Wednesday. Systems with new processors usually become available a few months after Intel delivers the chips.

Kaby Lake will succeed current Core processors named Skylake. The new chip has the underpinnings of Skylake and won't necessarily be smaller in size, but it'll provide speed improvements over its predecessor, Krzanich said.That raises a question: should you wait a few months for Kaby Lake instead of upgrading to a Skylake PC now? Experts generally say you should buy a PC as and when you need it rather than wait for the next improvement to come along.Nevertheless, Kaby Lake PCs should come in some interesting shapes and sizes. Intel usually first releases Core M versions of a new processor first, suggesting some innovative mobile designs.Skylake was originally to be followed by Canonlake, a 10 nanometer shrink of Skylake. But last year Intel pushed out its 10 nanometer plans and introduced Kaby Lake as an interim product, with some design tweaks to boost performance.

At Computex last month, Asus showed Transformer 3, which resembles Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet and runs on Kaby Lake. It has a 12.6-inch screen, weighs 695 grams and is 6.9 millimeters thick. It can be configured with a 512GB SSD and up to 8GB RAM. Asus said it would be priced starting at $799.No other major PC maker has announced a Kaby Lake PC yet. Lenovo and Acer are holding PC-related press conferences ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin in early September. Kaby Lake PCs could also be shown at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco next month.Intel has said 400 devices with Kaby Lake will ultimately become available. Microsoft's Surface PCs and Apple's MacBooks could also get Kaby Lake chips.

Competition to Kaby Lake will come from AMD's chips code-named Bristol Ridge, which reached a handful of PCs earlier this year. AMD's chips excel at graphics, while Intel chips are better at preserving laptop battery.Intel in April said it would reshape its business to focus less on PCs and more on data center products, internet of things and connectivity. The PC market has been slumping for years and has hurt Intel's profits.Krzanich expects the PC upgrade cycle to pick up in the second half this year, mainly in enterprises. Demand for PCs was slightly better in the second quarter, but should continue to decline in the high single-digit range for the rest of the year, he said.Sure, your workstation can run CAD programs, but can it create and test VR applications? MSI continues to break boundaries, launching the WT72 6QN, the first workstation capable of supporting the resource-taxing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. When you're not designing or exploring virtual spaces, the laptop delivers good overall performance with a lovely 4K display. However, the $4,999 price of the MSI WT72 6QN may give pause to all but the most deep-pocketed engineers and designers.

The WT72 looks pretty bad-ass for a workstation, and that's because it uses the same frame as the company's GT72 Dominator line of gaming notebooks, albeit with one distinctive change. Instead of the red-and-white backlit dragon emblem, the WT72's brushed-black aluminum lid is adorned with a gleaming MSI emblem set above a green-and-black workstation sigil.MSI WT72 6QNThe majority of the laptop's interior is made of black aluminum with the exception of the semiglass palm rest. A large speaker grill resides at the top of the deck above the backlit keyboard. Buttons for power, GPU, fan speed, KLM backlighting software and a programmed shortcut sit to the left of keyboard. Along the laptop's front lip are two LED strips that can also be customized.

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You want ports? The WT72 has them in spades. Starting on the right, you have a pair of USB 3.0 ports and a Blu-Ray burner. You'll find four USB 3.0 ports with jacks for headphones, microphone, S/PDIF and an amp and a SD card reader. In the rear is a Thunderbolt 3 port, HDMI, a mini DisplayPort and the power jack. That means that this monster can support up to four monitors or a VR headset if you're so inclined.
The WT72 might be one of the most powerful workstations in the land, but at 8.6 pounds, the 16.9 x 11.6 x 1.9-inch behemoth is most certainly the chunkiest. The 16.4 x 10.8 x 1.2-inch Lenovo ThinkPad P70 is a full pound lighter.Whether you're watching movies or creating them, the WT72's 3840 x 2160 display is a sight to behold.

The Dell Precision 5510 (14.1 x 9.3 x 0.66 inches) and HP ZBook Studio G3 (14.8 x 10 x 0.71 inches), both of which have 15-inch screens, weigh 4.6 pounds, while the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display measures 4.5 pounds, 14.1 x 9.7 x 0.71 inches.

Whether you're watching movies or creating them, the WT72's 3840 x 2160 display is a sight to behold. Actor Byung-hun Lee stood larger than life against a pale, blue sky and a field of green at his back in the 1080p trailer of The Magnificent Seven. Details were sharp enough that I could see the individual jet-black hairs in his mustache as well as the fine stripes in his shirt.
The matte panel can reproduce 173 percent of the sRGB color gamut, topping the 129 percent desktop-replacement average. The ZBook wasn't too far behind at 169 percent, while the ThinkPad P70 hit 158 percent. However, the Precision 5500 got the win at 177 percent. The MacBook Pro delivered a disappointing 86 percent.

The WT72's vividness is matched only by its accuracy. When tested, the display registered 0.87 on the Delta-E test (0 is ideal), besting the 1.3 category average. The MacBook Pro, ZBook and Precision 5500 posted 2.1, 2.4 and 2.6, respectively. But the ThinkPad P70 proved the most accurate at 0.7. When measured for brightness, the WT72 averaged a glimmering 305 nits, easily outshining the 291-nit average, but not the Precision's dazzling 322 nits. The WT72 fared better against the MacBook Pro, the ThinkPad P70 and the ZBook, which produced 303, 277 and 241 nits each.Thanks to the pair of Dynaudio speakers, the WT72's bark is as big as its bite. Paired with a bottom-mounted subwoofer, the top-firing speakers filled my small test space with loud, mostly clear music. Listening to Chance the Rapper's "Angels," I got a nice thump of bass paired with a playful steel drum and the artist's singsong-y vocal. The background vocals sounded slightly distorted, which was a bit off-putting.